Sometimes blogging is like finding an apartment. You go on Craigslist, you narrow your preferences, you look at some posts. Every once and awhile you’ll see something that sounds interesting (“Large Room in Manhatten – Cheap!”), but then you look at the photos and wonder why the biggest photo of the bunch is of the bathroom, or why they decided to strech one of the pictures about 20 pixels too wide.
Well, I’m experiencing the same thing with this story breaking news. Sure it’s for the Olympics. Ok, you’ll release it this Christmas for DS and Wii. Oh, and you are putting Mario and Sonic head to head in a competition game. Whhaaattt? Have you got any marginally convincing quotes to back this up with? Oh, you do. Great…
“Bringing together intensely competitive and fun characters like Mario and Sonic in an Olympic setting helps showcase the sports of the Olympic Games in a new and compelling way for all generations.”
I don’t know, it sounds kind of hokey to me, and even if the game does exist, it still falls under “borderline retarded” on my list of things I’m willing to put on my credit card.
Something saying enormously?
Because “it is the vinyl of the special material, the waterdrop however it does not pass, passes sound!”
* The waterproof double chuck. it is double structure of the relief which has high waterproof characteristic.
* The software clear film. the original film which “durability” “operativity” “sound characteristic” “transparency” balance well holds
* In order clear seat coating. to make durability raise, the principal operating part with the clear seat coating. Tough 4 layer laminating of total pressure 175 micron of coating part
* The side pocket. you fold and you can operate also the L R button of DS smoothly with the side pocket function which applies the technology for type portable telephone.”
Operativity in the bathroom, that’s what I’m looking for!
IGN has a post done by Hubert Chevillard, a character designer on Rayman Raving Rabbids. I actually don’t love all of the mini games, but the ones focusing on the rabbids doing weird things (like the dancing one) are pretty addicitive.
HOLDING BREATH FOR
Rayman Rabbids for DS. I still have to find the video games store in Amsterdam which I will probably do on Wednesday. Today I have to brave the snow and find a Dierenspeciaalzaak (say that 10 times fast), or an Animal Speciality, and get Gary some cat food.
Fuuuuuucccckkk. There’s another perfectly good name I should have been able to come up with. Kotaku is talking about an ice skating game for Nintendo DS. How many little girls’ skirts do boys have to look up into a day?
I HATE STREET SWEEPING. I swear it’s one of the ways the beaureacrats keep the community in their houses so they don’t cause trouble. Or a way to keep the streets clean. Either way, I’m stuck here so I’ll recap some exciting things that happened last week like y’all think it’s exciting too.
COOKING MAMA
You are looking at the new proud owner of Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS. Not a new game you say, but very hard to find in English (apparently the language that only people who want to play games like Gears of War speak).
It’s pretty damn fun, I gotta say, except every once and a while a mystery ingredient needs to be added to the recipe and it always looks like poo. The Japanese will eat anything.
NEW(ISH) PODCASTS
Perhaps they have always been available (I’ve only seen them for purchase), but This American Life started giving away episodes on iTunes here (there are two right now). One might be a Veteran’s Day special as it’s focuses on the statistics that have been reported on the body count in Iraq (very dark) and the other one is about raising kids (zzz) with a David Sedaris reading at the end.
And for those who are Bikerfox fans (I don’t really have the will to explain him, you’ll just have to see for yourself), his video podcast is also available for free too here.
LIVE ACTION FAMILY GUY
Last Saturday’s MadTv had a live action sketch of Family Guy with Seth McFarlene. He really does sound like Brian.
I still haven’t fully recovered from my vacation, so I apologize for not having anything to post the last two weeks. I’m still going through a lot of the emails from when I was away, and here are some of the more interesting items people tried to keep me updated on.
Animal Crossing – THE MOVIE
Emailed from Marc who says he “scours the internet so I don’t have to”. Animal Crossing is the best game to play from Nintendo if you’ve just graduated and haven’t gotten a job yet (meaning you have to have a lot of time on your hands and be kind of bored). Technically that’s what movies are like these days so it’s not far fetched that and Animal Xing movie would come out.
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Gnarls Barkley/Biggie Mashup
Sent by Whitey who has been sending music links back and forth. We’ll talk more about music blogging, mp3 aggregators, podcasting (and the like) later next week as I’ve been compiling a lot of links and information about the subject. But for now, you can wet your whistle on these tracks.
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Summer Reruns
July already! Time to find that f*@king netflix envelope you lost in February and catch up on what you missed while you were “working” in the winter months. So far everyone who I’ve recommended “Weeds” to has loved it for different reasons, which is odd, but great! Click on the image to add to your Netflix, or buy from iTunes.
As a small shareholder of the company, I thought it was my fiscal responsibility to hit Nintendo first and make sure the company wasn’t going to eff up their 2006 Annual Report projections. My wandering aimlessly towards the booth had absolutely nothing to do with bright moving colors and shapes on the walls. It was pure, unadulterated greed.
Some exhibits went for the balls-to-the-wall 3D experience, but at Nintendo it was all about lines. Not the clean lines of the DS Lites that littered the demo halls or the neat line-art of the numerous Japanese cartoon games that they had coming out. It was more like the ridiculous Disneyland-esque lines of people trying to get to the coveted Nintendo Wii presentation or the irrational “Blue light Special” crowd around the New Super Mario Brothers demo.
I gave up on the line for the Wii after not being able to find the end of the line for (I kid you not) ten minutes. Apparently the line for the Wii demo was pretty unmovable for all 3 days. Ben was able to get into it on the last day, saying that it really was a pretty awesome console and a lot of people seemed to really enjoy playing it.
After licking my wounds, I decided not to be a punk and wait in the demo line for the New Super Mario Bros which, lo and behold, came with the gift of schwag:
A DS Lite case for all those who tried out the new game that comes out TODAY which happens to play exactly and as awesomely as the online demo. I’ll have review of the game in the weeks to come, I’m sure of it.
Oh, and BTW, my stock has gone up $3.00 since the beginning of E3. Gee I wonder why.
